Bilderberg will plot its stealth
campaign for a world tax when the international power-mongers conduct their
annual secret meeting.

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By James P.
Tucker Jr.

High on the
Bilderberg agenda this year is the creation of a United Nations “Financial
Action Task Force” to promote a global levy.

The international financiers and political leaders
will approach the issue stealthily when they meet behind locked and guarded
doors at the Westfields luxury hotel in Chantilly, Va. May 30-June 2.

Bilderbergers know that publicly promoting a UN
tax on all people on Earth would meet with outrage in the United States and
elsewhere.

But the shadowy international cabal is patient; it
first proposed a direct world tax years ago and celebrates the fact that it is
now in the public dialogue with little public attention or concern.

Bilderberg has presented several options: A
10-cent-per-barrel tax on oil at the well-head, a surcharge on international
travel by air and sea and a charge for cross-border financial transactions.

Bilderberg also wants “tax harmonization” so
high-tax countries could compete with more tax-friendly nations—including the
United States—for foreign investment. They would “harmonize” taxes by forcing
the rate in the United States and other countries to rise so that socialist
Sweden’s 42-percent level would be “competitive.”

A related part of the Bilderberg agenda calls for
“transparency” of bank accounts and credit cards to a UN agency yet to be
established. This “transparency” would mean that an international body, at the
stroke of a computer key, could examine your bank accounts, credit cards and
other financial information. The IRS would have access, too.

This proposal has already come under fire from the
Task Force on Information Exchange and Financial Privacy, a private group
headed by former Sen. Mack Mattingly (R-Ga.). Edwin Meese, attorney general
under former President Ronald Reagan and former congressman and vice
presidential candidate Jack Kemp are advisers.

The Task Force recognized the most important
principle at issue: National sovereignty. No international body or group of
nations have the right to tell other sovereign countries what their financial
confidentiality policies and tax rates should be, the report said.

If financial privacy were eliminated, the Task
Force warned, law-abiding citizens and businesses in any country would be in
danger of having their financial information shared with corrupt and even
terrorist regimes, subjecting them to extortion, blackmail, kidnapping and
more. Information-sharing would drive needed foreign capital out of the United
States and result in sensitive business and financial information being shared
with governments and parties hostile to this country, the Task Force warned.

Bilderberg will use its immense influence to force
the U.S. media to reject this report and is confident that its goal will
succeed in the fullness of time. In the years ahead, Bilderberg will dictate
stories to the U.S. media about how “a fraction of a penny” paid at the gas
pump will feed the starving Third-World like Christ’s magical “loaves and
fishes” fed the multitude 2,000 years ago.

CFR SECRECY

The Council on Foreign Relations is Bilderberg’s
propaganda ministry and has its own code of secrecy. The CFR publishes an
annual report containing a financial statement and membership roster, but
conducts its important business secretly. Most Bilderberg and Trilateral boys
also belong to the CFR.

Treasury Secretary Paul H. O’Neill recently became
embroiled in controversy after a CFR member violated the confidentiality
policy. The March 15 New York Times reported that O’Neill criticized
President Bush’s decision to impose tariffs on imported steel in
“off-the-record comments after a dinner speech at the Council on Foreign
Relations in New York . . . .”

Among the more than 200 people attending were
“members of the staff of The New York Times who are also members of the
Council on Foreign Relations,” noted the report, hastening to add: “But this
article is based on information obtained independently.”

O’Neill’s speech was broadcast on the members-only
page of the CFR’s web site, but neither the Treasury Department “nor the
spokeswoman for the Council on Foreign Relations would provide a transcript of
Mr. O’Neill’s remarks or permit a viewing of the webcast of his appearance.”

Lisa Shields, the CFR’s communications director,
told The Washington Post that the Council “would not make a transcript
available even if O’Neill asked them to.”

Critics of the internationalist group were quick
to ask the poignant question missed by Establishment-owned media outlets,
namely, what other critical issues affecting Americans are our elected and
appointed leaders—undoubtedly traveling on the taxpayers’ dime—discussing
confidentially in private globalist forums such as the Council on Foreign
Relations? After all, the CFR says it promotes “democracy.”